I’ve been a full-time affiliate marketer for a little over six years as of the date of this post. I got my training from a company called, Wealthy Affiliate. They offer effective, affordable Affiliate Marketing Training for $49 per month (or less if you pay annually – see below). You get full access to their complete affiliate marketing training course which includes over 120 video training classes, weekly live training webinars, and a whole lot more. See below for a full overview of the course. Your first month is only $19.
This Affiliate Marketing Training Course Includes:
Online Entrepreneur Certification (50 Lessons – described below)
Affiliate Bootcamp Training (70 Lessons – described below)
Weekly LIVE Interactive Classes
Over 300 Hours of Expert Education Available Anytime
Gigantic Catalogue of Industry Training
12 Classrooms, Evolving Daily
Your Own Authority Blog at Wealthy Affiliate
Earn Money Creating Your Own Training!
Additional MAJOR Benefits and Bonuses:
Free WordPress Websites
Free Website Hosting
Keyword Research Tools Included for Free
Advanced Website Training
Mentoring Community that Cares
Want to save a little on this membership? You will receive a discount if you pay for your Premium Membership annually instead of monthly. Wealthy Affiliate offers a full year for $495 – that works out to $41.25 per month instead of $49.
Let’s move on to a full overview of what Wealthy Affiliate’s Affiliate Marketing Training Course includes.
Best Feature: Their Training Works
The training at Wealthy Affiliate doesn’t just simplify the process of affiliate marketing, it’s better in absolutely every way. When you become a Premium Member at Wealthy Affiliate, you get access to the most sophisticated training program in the industry. Whether you’re brand new at affiliate marketing or an experienced affiliate marketer, Wealthy Affiliate can play a crucial role in your having a successful, long-term business online.
Let’s Talk About the Education, Features and Benefits
Online Entrepreneur Certification (50 Lessons)
This training consists of 5 Phases, each containing 10 Lessons, for a total of 50 Lessons. This will be the core of your knowledge and training. By the time you’re finished with these lessons, you’re going to be well equipped to succeed in any niche or topic. This training is updated regularly so you’ll always be ahead of industry trends (and your competition!)
Affiliate Bootcamp Training (70 Lessons)
I consider Affiliate Bootcamp an absolutely brilliant idea on the part of the owners of Wealthy Affiliate. This is where they teach you HOW TO PROMOTE WEALTHY AFFILIATE! Think about this – they give you 70 Lessons on how to promote products within the making-money-online niche. They make you an expert at promoting Wealthy Affiliate and you make an enormous amount of money doing it. It’s good for them. It’s good for you.
Like I said, it’s brilliant. (By the way, the website I created in Affiliate Bootcamp is the one you’re on right now!) Affiliate Bootcamp, in my opinion, is one of the many features that makes Wealthy Affiliate far better than any other training program out there. It’s the difference between being just an affiliate marketer and being a full-blown internet entrepreneur.
Weekly LIVE Interactive Classes
Each and every week, they offer live class training from industry experts. Jay, the lead trainer for the live classes, is an awesome trainer. He’s funny, personable, understandable, and he has an amazing, advanced skill level that will blow your mind. Jay is important to all of us Premium Members. We love this guy. Wealthy Affiliate will send you an email every time a new training is scheduled, so you’ll be able to pick and choose which live trainings you’d like to attend.
Over 300 Hours of Expert Education Available Anytime
Every live class is published as a “replay,” and as a Premium member you get access to ALL of the past live classes. This includes over 300 hours of education on absolutely every topic imaginable. If you want to redefine your business and grow to entirely new levels, this is worth 100 times the cost of the membership alone. Wealthy Affiliate will send you an email every time a new replay is available.
Gigantic Catalogue of Industry Training
Everything you could imaging in terms of running a successful online business is covered in the thousands of training modules available in your Premium Membership. New trainings are created every single day through their “community training” program.
12 Classrooms, Evolving Daily
Wealthy Affiliate has the most diverse training in the industry. The fact is, there are MANY ways you can build a business online and make money with it. There’s drop shipping, e-commerce, local marketing, Adsense, SEO, Facebook ads, pay-per-click, email marketing, lead generation…the list goes on and on. All of these topics are covered within the classrooms and throughout the training at Wealthy Affiliate. And get this – if you don’t see a training you’re looking for, simply request it, and an expert within the community will create it!
Earn Money Creating Your Own Training
In Wealthy Affiliate, you can earn extra revenue by simply giving back to the community. After three months of being a Premium Member, you can create your own training articles, video trainings or text tutorials, as well as full training courses. Payments for the trainings are sent monthly and it’s a great way to cover the cost of your entire membership at Wealthy Affiliate.
Your Own Authority Blog at Wealthy Affiliate
Every Premium Member at Wealthy Affiliate gets their own blog on the Wealthy Affiliate website. You can use this blog to share your experiences and your online journey. These blogs are among the highest ranked in the world. You will see your posts in Google and other search engines within minutes. After a while, you may have many of your blog posts ranking. The result? Money! You get credit for every person who joins Wealthy Affiliate as a result of visiting your blog.
The Most Powerful Websites in the World
The Most Powerful Websites in the WorldEvery successful online business starts with a solid website. It’s not just about creating the website, though. You also need to integrate things like website management, analysis, ranking and security. Wealthy Affiliate has some of the most useful tools for these purposes with features that aren’t offered anywhere else in the world. The website platform at Wealthy Affiliate is ridiculously easy to use, but very advanced.
You can truly build beautiful, professional, highly functioning websites with Wealthy Affiliate. (Hosting is included at Wealthy Affiliate, by the way. We’ll get to that…)
Website Benefits and Features
Over 3,000 Beautiful Website Designs
It’s nice to have a choice for the website design you’d like to use. You’re going to have access to more than 3,000 beautiful themes. These themes are mobile ready and there’s a design available for any niche/topic you desire.
51,973 Website Feature “Add On’s”
Feature extensions, or add on’s, are used to enhance your website. Everything from adding shopping carts to your site, to building a membership site, font plugins, image/design plugins, and plugins for social media are available. They are FREE and can be installed on your website quickly and easily.
An All Inclusive Domain Platform
When you either create a website at Wealthy Affiliate, or move one of your websites to be hosted by Wealthy Affiliate, you have access to many features you would expect other domain registrars to charge for. Included with every domain is WHOIS Privacy Protection, 24/7 Support, Next Year Guarantee Pricing, Domain Security, Unlimited Email Accounts, & Advanced DNS Management & Instant Set-up. As a Premium member, you will have access to all of these features for no extra cost with any domain that you register through SiteDomains!
Just pulling out one piece of this is crucial. I personally feel that the fact that I have 24/7 website tech support at Wealthy Affiliate makes my membership worth it. Honestly, look around to see what other hosting companies are charging, what they offer, and what the price is. You’ll see that it’s an amazing feature of Wealthy Affiliate to actually have our own tech support team included with every single one of our websites. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without the tech support at Wealthy Affiliate! I’m a little embarrassed to say I need their help often. 🙂
Amplify Your Website Speed with SiteSpeed
Faster websites get ranked higher, and they also offer a better user experience than slow websites. If your website is slow, people will leave it quickly and not come back. But if it’s fast, they’ll spend more time on your pages, reading your content, and this will result in more sales. Wealthy Affiliate’s SiteSpeed feature has the fastest website load times in the industry. They guarantee it.
Website Analysis with SiteHealth
There are many things you can analyze to determine the overall health of your website. These include content quality, publishing frequency, visitor engagement, plugins, Google rankings, website feedback and overall trust. Wealthy Affiliate tracks all of these for you within the SiteHealth platform.
Spam Protection
In this day and age, website security is becoming more and more important. The SiteProtect feature at Wealthy Affiliate adds Comment Spam, Back Office Hacking (passwords), and Website Load Speeds (Botnet Attacks) to your websites. These are the three ways hackers can wreak havoc on your business and Wealthy Affiliate protects you from all of these with the SiteProtect platform.
Website Engagement – SiteComments
When people comment at the bottom of your posts, it increases your rankings in the search engines. Plus, engagement leads to trust. And trust leads to sales. In Wealthy Affiliate, you have access to a community “comment exchange.” This is where we post comments on each others’ posts. Brilliant, huh? And great practice for learning how to interact with your audience.
A Focus Group for Your Website with SiteFeedback
In the Wealthy Affiliate community, we have a platform in place where we can give feedback to each other about our websites. This tool is priceless. It’s feedback from REAL people about your website, your design, your content, your images…it’s a great tool for finding out ways to improve your website.
Advanced Website Training
There are hundreds of training modules and hours of video training that you will get instant access to when you become a Premium Member that will teach you how to become an expert with WordPress. As you move through the training at Wealthy Affiliate, you’ll become not only well versed, but extremely knowledgeable about creating and managing a successful website. There are no technical skills required. They literally teach you, step-by-step, everything you need to know.
A Website Platform You Can Grow With
Wealthy Affiliate’s website platform is just as appropriate for a brand new person as it is for the experienced website owner. As your business grows, your website platform needs to be able to grow with you. Your website will be getting more and more traffic, and you’ll likely be building more and more websites. At Wealthy Affiliate, you can create and run several multi-million dollar websites from one platform. You can’t outgrow the platform at Wealthy Affiliate. As a Premium Member, you can host up to 50 websites total (yes, 50!).
Wealthy Affiliate provides a hosting experience you can feel safe running your businesses on. They take care of the technology, security and monitoring so we can focus on more important things, like making money and growing our business! I personally consider them my business partners.
Hosting Benefits and Features
24/7 Monitoring
You don’t have to watch your sites – Wealthy Affiliate does that for you. They have a team of Server Administrators who are keeping an eye on your websites’ performance 24/7. They are continuously scanning hundreds of potentially serious issues which their technology automatically deals with to maximize your sites’ performance, speed and security.
Site Support Available 24/7 – Average Response Time is 5 Minutes!
Unlike other hosting companies where you have to email the Help Desk, then wait for a response, with Wealthy Affiliate you get help 24/7, and you receive help immediately (any time of the day or night).
Malware and Virus Protection
Wealthy Affiliate has many layers of defense against “bugs.” You can rest assured that your sites are protected with built-in virus and malware protection.
With Wealthy Affiliate’s Premium Membership, you not only have the fastest servers in the industry, but you also have layers of technology to make your website run faster and more efficiently for your visitors. More speed leads to more rankings, more visitors, and more sales! Hosting services equivalent to what you get with Wealthy Affiliate typically run between $250 and $300 per month. Not only is Wealthy Affiliate far cheaper at $49 per month, but they’re even FASTER.
You can read my complete review of Wealthy Affiliate’s Hosting Services HERE.
Content Features and Benefits
The Ultimate Content-Writing Platform
Quality content is one of the most important ingredients for any successful online business. With Wealthy Affiliate’s training, you’re going to be well equipped to write content efficiently and accurately with beautiful content design. You can create, organize, manage and publish your content within one easy platform.
Over 1,000,000 Gorgeous Graphics
Adding images to your website content is a great way to optimize your rankings. The platform at Wealthy Affiliate offers more than 1,000,000 beautiful, niche-related images automatically optimized for fast website load times.
Grammar and Spell Check
The website platform at Wealthy Affiliate finds and corrects hundreds of writing errors so your grammar and spelling will be accurate.
This is HUGE
Your Premium Membership includes Jaaxy. Created by the owners of Wealthy Affiliate, Jaaxy is the keyword research platform chosen by the most successful entrepreneurs in the world (it’s all I use). You can use Jaaxy to uncover billions of low-competition keywords and even to discover lucrative niches in seconds.
Your ability to find and utilize effective keywords is critical to the success or failure of your online business. You’ll need a tool like this, and this one is used by the big-guys in internet marketing! Jaaxy’s monthly fee after their free trial period is $49. That’s why I said this is huge – you’re getting this FREE with your Wealthy Affiliate Premium Membership.
Other benefits of Jaaxy are:
Tracking Your Website Rankings
Discovering Profitable Niches
Analyze Your Competitors’ Websites
Brainstorming for New Ideas
Uncover Incredibly Valuable Domains
A Community That Cares
Wealthy Affiliate has the most helpful community in the world. Period. They have the largest base of aspiring and successful internet marketers and entrepreneurs in the world. Honestly, if you want to be successful online, you can’t possibly rub elbows with a better crowd! My mother always said, “You are who you hang with.” Being a part of the Wealthy Affiliate community gives you the ability to network not only with other people who are learning the same things you are, but also with people who are super successful in the online world.
Community Benefits and Features
The community at Wealthy Affiliate never sleeps
It’s a global community with over 1.2 MILLION members, so somebody, somewhere, is always online and available to help you! Whether you live in the USA, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia or Africa, you are going to be able to connect with fellow aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs 24 hours per day.
There are certain perks to helping others in the Wealthy Affiliate community. If you help people and give back to the community, you’ll increase your rank within the Ambassador Program, and there are perks associated with that!
Mentoring Features and Benefits
Yes, you read that right. No other company in the world gives you direct access to contact its owners, particularly not a company that has well over a million members. Wealthy Affiliate’s founders (Kyle and Carson) are actively on the site supporting people every day, and you have full, private access to them with your Premium Membership. I have personally emailed back and forth with Kyle on several occasions. It’s real – these guys are actually available!
It’s no secret that anybody who’s anybody in the internet marketing world makes Wealthy Affiliate their home base to hang out, build their businesses, interact with other entrepreneurs and help others. Wealthy Affiliate is a “pay it forward” community where you’ll have the ability to connect with thousands of industry experts.
Premium Members are Thriving at Wealthy Affiliate!
I know, because I’m one of them. What is your idea of success? Whatever it is, $100 a week, $500 a week, $5000 a week – it’s entirely possible. With the education, tools, help and support you get with a Wealthy Affiliate Premium Membership, you’ll be fully capable of achieving your goals. There are success stories being posted on Wealthy Affiliate daily. There really is no limit to the level of success you can achieve, it just takes time and hard work.
Wealthy Affiliate was started in 2005 and currently has more than 1.2 million members. It is the largest affiliate marketing community in the world. They teach what’s been proven to work, not only in their own experience but in the experience of thousands of successful members, and new members achieving success is the result.
Every day, members are posting good news at Wealthy Affiliate. Whether it’s someone creating their first website, getting their first sale…their first $1,000 week or their first $10,000 month. The successes are everywhere you look. And being in a community where not only are your successes celebrated by others, but where you can also cheer on new people, is fulfilling in itself.
Imagine working with a company where everyone actually cares about and encourages each other – hey, there’s a concept! It really is a great feeling. Wealthy Affiliate will give you the tools to become a success story as well. Whatever you’re willing to work for, they can help you achieve.
Wealthy Affiliate’s Premium Plus Membership
Wealthy Affiliate’s Premium Plus MembershipWealthy Affiliate also has a Premium Plus Membership, which is $99 per month (or $995 per year if you pay annually). This program includes everything we’ve just described plus:
50 websites (instead of 10 included with the regular Premium Membership)
Unlimited Priority Support
200+ Expert Classes Per year (instead of 52+ per year in the regular Premium Membership)
Jaaxy Enterprise (updated version of Jaaxy)
Advanced Website Hosting
Advanced Hosting Security
Hosting for $1,000,000 Monthly Visits on Your Websites (250,000 with regular membership)
Priority Expert Private Help
Advanced Research Tools
10,000 SiteRank Analysis Scans (2,000 with regular membership)
My Experience with Wealthy Affiliate
My Experience with Wealthy AffiliateI’ve been a Premium Member of Wealthy Affiliate since 2015. I started with their free starter membership that August, then upgraded in November to the Premium Membership (the $49/month program) to continue the training. As a direct result of my training at Wealthy Affiliate, I now own several money-making websites plus two YouTube Channels.
When you realize I started as a complete beginner, you realize it really is amazing. For more about my story, CLICK HERE.
You won’t find more effective, and more affordable affiliate marketing course. Whether you’re a beginner wanting to learn how to start affiliate marketing, or if you are experienced and can jump right in to the more advanced training, I know that Wealthy Affiliate is the place to be. It’s the best training, for the best price. I hope you’ll make this your year. Debra 🙂
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